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New Seasons

It's been announced that George Benjamin's spectacular contemporary opera Written on Skin will have its American fully staged premiere in New York City on August 11, 13, and 15 at the Koch Theater (one of the Lincoln Center venues) as part of the Mostly Mozart festival. The production is a revival imported from the Aix-en-Provence original (2012) directed by Katie Mitchell and features most of the original cast including Opera Lively interviewees Barbara Hannigan and Christopher Purves, with the contralto role of The Boy being taken by another one of our interviewees, Tim Mead.
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Here are the operas scheduled for the 2012-13 season in the United States by our main 103 opera companies (not counting in many cases, other smaller companies and opera-producing academic departments). Let's list them by number of productions, so that we can try to understand some trends.

I've included musicals and operettas when they're being given by opera companies, since we are trying to look at the patterns of behavior of the opera companies during these times of economic crisis.

The name of the opera is followed by a number - not of how many runs, but of how many companies are staging the opera this season (how many different productions) - so, an opera may be given by a company just twice on a Friday evening and Sunday matinée in some cases, or 10-12 times in other cases by a different, larger company, and each of these situations will count as *one* production in my numbers. So this is not a list of performances, but rather a list of productions.

This list is more complete than the one recently published by Opera News Magazine, since I've included seasons of some companies that had not announced theirs yet, at the Opera News Magazine press time.

This article contains the 2012-2013 opera season announcements for Los Angeles Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Vienna State Opera, Zürich Opera, and Opéra National de Paris (Bastille, Garnier), in this order, compiled by MAuer
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